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NE 



ENGLAND FARMER 



JAN. 4, i'- 



MISCELLANEOUS 



A HEART TO BE LET.. 



To be let, nt a very desirable rate, 



A s;iug little linuse in .1 liealtliy slate; 



"I'i* a Bachelor's Heart, anil the agent is Chance, 



Aflection, the rent, lo be paid in advance. 



Tile owner, as yet, ha.H lived in it alone, 



S" the fi.xturcs aic nut of much value — but soon 



'Twill be furnished by Cupid himself, if a wi/ie 



Take a lease for the termvf her nnturol life. 



'I hen ladies, dear ladies, pray do n()t forget 



There 's an excellent Bacheloi 's heart lo be let. 



The tenant will have a few taxes lo pay, 



Love^ honor^ and (heaviest item) obkv. 



As for the good will, the subscriber's inclin'd 



'I'o have that, if agreeable, settled m kin'< ; 



Indeed, if he could such a matter arrange. 



He, 'd be highly delighted lo tnlie in e.^charge, 



(I'rovided true title by prudence be shown.j 



Any heart vnincnwlieicd, and free as his own. 



t^o ladies, dear ladies, pray do not forget. 



An excellent Bachelor's heart's lo lie let. 



Ladies' Covipanion. 



Snow Owls. — A writer in the New; England 

 Magazine thus pleasantly describes a white owl: 



"But what think you of Owls, good reader? 

 There is not a more comical sea-fowl than your 

 owl, to be seen along the shore. " Doubted, Mr 

 Moderator," say you — '' the owl is no sea-bird, but 

 a most arrant land-lubber." On Deer Island, in 

 Boston harbor, a person straying along the shore a 

 few weeks since, observed on the beach, close to 

 the water, one of the oddest figures imaginable, for 

 all the world like unto a little old woman cut short- 

 er, most dowdily mobbed up in a white loose gown, 

 and a night cap. There she sat, squat upon the 

 sand, bobbinn- her head up end down, in a very 

 jiortcntons and ghost-like solemnity, now and then 

 making an odd sort of a hitch along the shore, 

 something between a stride and a stumble. Our 

 hero was struck all of a heap at the sight, not be- 

 ing able to conjecture, for the life of him, what 

 Pagan had come to land ; and presently, fetching 

 his musket, gave the apparition a knock down at 

 the Hrst shot. It turned out to be an enormous 

 Snowy Owl, who had come all the way from tlie 

 North Pole, to snuff the sea-breezes in Boston har- 

 bor! lie had been several days sharking about 

 the island, making night hideous, and rioting in a 

 fat lent, upon the products of the sea-shore, gob- 

 bling up muscles, cracking clam-shells, untwisting 

 cockles, and picking lobster's pockets. Owls of 

 ordinary ambition, are content with rats and mice 

 and such small gcme, but this was no common 

 owl. Nevertheless, it would be somewhat interest- 

 ing to know what odd affair sent his gravity upon 

 BO long a journey. 



It is a great rarity to see one of these birds in 

 our neighborhood. Their home is in the North, 

 about Hudson's Bay, where, in the neighborhood of 

 the settlements, they are known for a piece of right 

 cunning impudence, in following the hunter, and 

 stealing his yaine as he shoots it. Stories are told 

 of their gormandizing capacity, in swallowing par- 

 tridges and rabbits whole, which I cannot exactly 

 vouch for; but it is well known that an owl com- 

 monly despatches his dinner in such a hurry, as to 

 swallow the feathers and all, of the hi.'d he is de- 

 vouring. The indigestible matter is cast up, rolled 

 into a ball. Wherever an owl's nest is found, 

 hundreds of those pellets are sure to be discovered. 



Remember the child whose voice first lisps, to- 

 day, before that voice shall whisper sedition in se- 

 cret, or thunder treason at the head of an armed 

 band. Kernember the child whose hand today 

 first lifts its tiny bauble, before that hand shall 

 scatter firebrands, arrows and death. Rem.ember 

 those sportive groups of youth, in whose halcyon 

 bo.soms there sleeps an ocean, as yet scarcely ruf- 

 fled by the passions, which soon shall heave it as 

 with the tempest's strength. Remember, that 

 whatever station in life you may fill, these mortals, 

 these immortals, are your care. Devote, expend, 

 consecrate yourself to the holy work of their im- 

 provement. Pour out light and truth as God pours 

 sunshine and rain. No longer seek knowledge as 

 the luxury of a few, but dispense it among all as 

 the bread of life. Learn only how the ignorant 

 m-iy learn; how the innocent may be preserved; 

 the vicious reclaimed. Call down the astronomer 

 from the skies; call up the geologist from his sub- 

 terranean explorations ; sunimons, if needs be, the 

 mightiest intellects from the Council Chamber of 

 the nation ; enter cloistered halls where the scholi- 

 ast muses over superfluous annotations ; dissolve 

 conclave and synod, where subtle polemics are vain- 

 ly-discussing their barren dogmas; collect what- 

 ever of talent, or erudition, or eloquence, or au- 

 thority, the broad land can .=upply, and go Jorlh 

 and TF.ACii THIS pkople. For, in the name of the 

 living God, it must be proclaimed, that licentious- 

 ness shall be the liberty, and violence and chica- 

 nery shall be the law, and superstition and craft 

 shall be the religion, and the self-de.structive in- 

 diilgence'of all sensiml and unhallowed passions, 

 shall be the only happiness of that people who 

 neglect the education of their children. — Hon. Hor- 

 ace Mann''s Oration. 



Answer to the "Charade" in our last : — Co.vu.v- 



DRUM. 



Grace Darling. — Some of our readers may not 

 be acquainted with the occuirence which gave ce- 

 lebrity lo the name of this heroic young woman, 

 who lately died in England. Some years since, 

 when the Forfarshire steamboat was wrecked on 

 tlie coast of Scotland in a furious gale, and when 

 hardy seamen refused to hazard their lives in an 

 attempt to succor the wrecked, Grace resolved to 

 go alone ; but her father, when ho saw the deter- 

 mination of his child, went with her. In a small 

 fisher's boat, in the darkness of night, they ventur- 

 ed on this errand of mercy, and succeeded in sav- 

 ing a great number of lives. Hence Grace be- 

 came the subject of song and story, though she 

 continued the same huinble-minded light-kcepei's 

 daughter she was before her name had become fa- 

 miliar to the civilized world. It is pleasing to see 

 that, amid all the excitement and startling public 

 events of the age, true heroism is still appreciated 

 even in a small degree ; and though this humble 

 heroine claims no place in the r'Cords of a world, 

 future generations will remember with heartfelt 

 emotion that page in the history of humanity which 

 embalms the memory of the heroic and humble 

 Grace Darling. — Selecled. 



"I say Jem," said a plowboy the other day to 

 his companion, " 1 know of a new way to keep out 

 the wet." ''What's that.'" " Why, if you eat a 

 red herring for breakfast you 'II be dry all day." 



A new-fashioned bonnet, just introduced, goes 

 by the name of " Kiss-me-quick." The only flow, 

 crs worn on them, we supp^.se, are Iwo-lips. — Phil- 

 adtl. Spirit of the Times. 



AGRICULiTURA.!.. IMPIiBIIIBKTS, &c 



The Proprietors of the New L^ngland Agricultural \\' i 

 house and Seed Store No. 61 and'ca North MarUei sir^ 

 would inform their customers 3:id the public [ienerall\ \\ 

 they have on hand the most extensive assortment ol Ai 

 cuhuial and Horticultural Tools to he found in the I in 

 Slates. Part of which are I he following : 



MUCK MANUAL.. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., The Muck Ma 

 ual for Faimers. By Dr S. L. Dana; price $1. 

 Boston, April 13. 



GUBEN'S PATENT S IHAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New Enslaiid Aerici 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and 62 Norih ih 

 kel Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Slraw, Hay a 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not livli 

 applied 10 any implement lor this purpose, Thenio^lproi 

 iiienl effects of this application, and some of the consequt 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



1 . So great a reduction of the quantum of power requis 

 to use it,' that the strength of a hall grown boy is sutiicn 

 to work it elficienlly. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two hu; 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been claim 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or siei 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiarmanner in which tl 

 cut. require sharpening less often than those of any oil 

 slraw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and ) 

 logether very slronsly. It is therefore not so liable as I 

 complicated machines in general use to gelnut of order 



TYtS UP CHAINS. 



Just received by 500 Chains for tyeing up Cattle. 



These chains, introduced by E. H. Derby, Esq. of S 

 and Col. Jacques, lor the purpose t,{ securing catile lo t 

 stall, are found tc he the safest and most convenieul mo 

 of fastening cows and oxen to the stanchion. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No. 52 Noi 

 Market st. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Draft Chains. Kor sale by J. BRECK & C( 

 No. 52 North Market st. 



LACTOMETERS— a simple instnmient for testi 

 the quality of milk. For sale by J. BRECK cV CO. 



A'EW ENGLAND FARMKll. 



A WEEKLY PAI'ER. 



Terms, $2 per year in advance, or$2 5J if not p! 

 within thirty days. 



N. B. — rostmasters are permitted by law to frank 

 subscriptions and reinittancts lor newspapci.s, v. ithc 

 expense to subscribers. 



TUTTLE AND DENNETT, FKIKTERS. 



